LETTERS: NCT, Sept. 22, 2012

The wonderful thing about the Internet is that the president is no longer immune from criticism, even from foreign countries. This embarrassing tidbit was sent to me by a friend, but it is worth passing on:

The president recently praised the Norwegians, referring to them as our "closest allies" and, to quote an old boxing term, described the Norwegians as "punching above their weight." The television show then went on to mimick President Obama, showing clips of Obama's visits with diplomats from the Netherlands, Ireland, Germany, the Philippines, Great Britain, Australia, Israel, France and Italy referring to these countries as our "closest allies" and yes, "punching above their weight" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=erYpXzE9Pxs).

Obama has turned our country into the laughingstock of the world, as evidenced by the many Obama-U.S. floats in a German parade (www.snopes.com/photos/politics/parade.asp). This president had absolutely no credentials to run this country and we can see the results: $6 trillion more in debt, unemployment at close to 15 percent (counting those who gave up or are working part time) and 1 in 6 on food stamps, 35 percent on government assistance.

John Adams said it best: "There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is debt."

Valerie Wanket

Valley Center

Obama's scorched-earth policies

Do you remember what Saddam Hussein did to the Kuwati oil fields when he knew he'd lost the first Iraqi war? He executed a scorched-earth policy that shocked the civilized world by setting ablaze the Kuwati oil fields, thus triggering one of the largest environmental, political, economic and social disasters in modern times.

Osama bin Laden did virtually the same thing in his costly terrorist rampages.

Knowing he'll soon be landslided out of office, I believe Barack Hussein Obama, whom I believe is a Marxist/Communist, will accelerate his ongoing scorched-earth campaign against the Constitution, economy and the American people. More are coming to realize the absolute veracity of my oft-repeated statement that Obama is the single most dangerous (his policies have set the Middle East ablaze), divisive (he's a classic progressive race- and class-warfare baiter), destructive (he's added more than $5 trillion to our national debt in less than four years) and despotic (with his numerous self-appointed czars and countless executive orders, he's single-handedly neutered Congress) president in our nation's history, bar none, hands down.

Don't think so? Just watch.

Gary Walker

Escondido

An argument for God

The joust between the creationists and evolutionists in the North County Times and elsewhere has the practical effect of a fluttering butterfly on a bud in Borneo. But, to stir the pot some more, the creationist's contention that God had to have done something somewhere, ever or at some specific time, places nonsensical limits on the creationist's limitless God.

Worse, it provides a rational basis for arguing the non-existence of God. So, why bother with the contention? Why not simply exalt in the proposition that perceptions of divine action need only be our individual explanations of untestable aspects of the universe and its maker? This permits all sides in the discussion a respectful live-and-let-live position: What is simply is, at least until whenever.